US 2014/0279925 A1Published application

Population of data in a spiritual research database system and method

AssigneeAmbient Consulting, LLC

InventorsAndrew Grossman, Kenneth F. Krutsch, Richard Monson-Haefel, Clayton Darwin

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Abstract

A computerized system and method are presented that utilize the assistance of subject matter experts to create a research archive for researching fundamental texts of a variety of spiritual and religious domains. Using a subject matter expert interface that provides tools not available to users of the archive database, the subject matter experts identify ideas having snippets from the fundamental texts. Each idea is associated with a single life issue tag and a religious or spiritual domain. Through the subject matter expert tools, subject matter experts are requested to provide commentaries that comment on the snippet from the point of view of the religious domain and its relationship to the associated life issue tag. The commentaries are each written with respect to a particular role.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A server computing machine for spiritual research comprising:

a) a network interface providing data and a user interface to a remote computing device over a computerized network;
b) a processor that is controlled via programming instructions;
c) a non-transitory computer readable memory;
d) database programming stored on the non-transitory computer readable memory and performed by the processor, the database programming managing an archive database that is transformed during operation by the database programming, the archive database having:
i) a plurality of life issue tag database entities each having a life issue tag that identifies a life issue,
ii) a plurality of snippet database entities each having an excerpt from a source spiritual document,
iii) a plurality of subject matter expert database entities each identifying a subject matter expert,
iv) a plurality of commentary database entities each containing a commentary,
v) first database relationships between the commentary database entities and the subject matter expert database entities establishing a subject matter expert author for the commentary,
vi) second database relationships between the commentary database entities and the snippet database entities establishing an excerpt topic excerpt for the commentary, and
vii) third database relationships between the commentary database entities and the life issue tag database entities establishing a life issue for the commentary and
e) subject matter expert interface programming stored on the non-transitory computer readable memory and performed by the processor, the subject matter expert interface programming:
i) provides an SME interface to an identified subject matter expert over the network interface over the computerized network,
ii) indicates over the SME interface a particular excerpt and a particular life issue tag for which a new commentary is desired,
iii) receives the new commentary over the SME interface for the particular excerpt and the particular life issue, and
iv) stores the received commentary in a particular commentary database entity associated with the subject matter expert database entity for the identified subject matter expert.

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A method for using subject matter experts to establish a spiritual database comprising:

a) establishing the spiritual database as a structured, computerized archive database managed by a server computing system;
b) at the server computing system, establishing in the archive database a plurality of domain database entities each identifying a different spiritual domain;
c) at the server computing system, establishing in the archive database a domain hierarchy of the domain database entities having leaf nodes;
d) at the server computing system, establishing in the archive database document database entities identifying spiritual documents;
e) at the server computing system, assigning in the archive database the document database entities to the leaf nodes in the domain hierarchy;
f) at the server computing system, receiving expert-identified excerpts from the spiritual documents through an SME interface used by the subject matter experts;
and
g) establishing snippet database entities identifying the expert-identified excerpts from the documents.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.